Monster Hoaxes
There seems to be a spate of strange monster discoveries at the moment. Or perhaps it’s just because everyone had a bit of spare holiday time recently. You see - no sooner had these startling pics of a ‘washed up monster’ found “near a government animal testing laboratory”
hit the net via gawker, had other stories about mishapen dead dogs, Photoshop tinkering, and a mega company’s latest viral advertising campaign also ran. Must heartless capitalism always ruin our precious hell demon memories?
The International Chapter of the Junior Society is one of our favorite websites to hang out at on a hot summer afternoon, but we think they need to replace the battery on the old fake-alarm too. You never can tell with these folks. But they report what is supposed to be the remains of a fairy, in a recent post.
Now, I thought belief in faeries needed the type of innocent mind that the world lost somewhere in the Somme trenches in 1917. And certainly whilst we need to see wings to mistake a halloween skeleton toy for a faerie, even a nineteenth century seven year old would tell you that those yummy wing bits get eaten by the hedgehogs first.
Much better, we think, is if you never set out to hoax at all. Here is a happy holiday pic from US artist Charlie White, ex special effects guru turned fab visual artist. Despite his protestations, White achieved one of the most successful hoaxes of all, with his work turning into ‘evidence’ for hundreds of Netizens with a serious case of wishful thinking. Of a strange variety, granted.
